Stolen Picasso Painting Found in Forklift Operator's Home, Returned to Museum 47 Years Later

• A missing Picasso painting from 1969 was found in the home of a forklift operator named Merrill Rummel.
• The painting was completed in 1967 and was to be forwarded to a Milwaukee gallery owned by Irving Luntz.
• The painting's current whereabouts are unknown, but it was featured in a 1971 exhibition called "Picasso in Milwaukee" and was owned by Sidney and Dorothy Kohl.
• Rummel's father, Whitcomb Rummel Sr., helped return the painting to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
• The story of the Rummel family returning the painting has the potential to be made into a movie.

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